Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r11.3-151

Chapter 42. Multimedia Libraries and Drivers

gstreamer-vaapi-1.22.1

Introduction to gstreamer-vaapi

The gstreamer-vaapi package contains a gstreamer plugin for hardware accelerated video decode/encode for the prevailing coding standards today (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP/H.263, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, and VC-1/VMW3).

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Note

On systems without hardware acceleration (notably virtual machines under qemu-7.2.0), this package may cause the X server to crash. The BLFS team recommends not to install this package in this case.

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Note

Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.

Package Information

gstreamer-vaapi Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.24.37, gstreamer-1.22.1, gst-plugins-base-1.22.1, gst-plugins-bad-1.22.1, and libva-2.17.0

Optional

hotdoc

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gstreamer10-vaapi

Installation of gstreamer-vaapi

Install gstreamer-vaapi by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup ..            \
      --prefix=/usr       \
      --buildtype=release \
      -Dpackage-origin=https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/ &&
ninja

This package does not come with a working test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libgstvaapi.so in /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0
Installed Directory: None